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Military Workhouse to those employed in manufactur- 

 ing them is as follows : — 



In the manufactures of wool, for instance, he delivers 

 to the master-clothier a certain quantity, commonly 100 

 pounds, of wool, of a certain quality and description, 

 taken from a certain division, or bin, in the magazine, 

 bearing a certain number, in order to its being sorted. 

 And as a register is kept of the wool that is put into 

 these bins from time to time, and as the lots of wool are 

 always kept separate, it is perfectly easy at any time to 

 determine when and where and from whom the wool 

 delivered to the sorter was purchased, and what was 

 paid for it ; and consequently to trace the wool from 

 the flock where it was grown to the cloth into which it 

 was formed, and even to the person who wore it. And 

 similar arrangements are adopted with regard to all other 

 raw materials used in the various manufactures. 



The advantages arising from this arrangement are 

 too obvious to require being particularly mentioned. It 

 not only prevents numberless abuses on the part of 

 those employed in the various manufactures, but affords 

 a ready method of detecting any frauds on the part of 

 thosfe from whom the raw materials are purchased. 



The wool received by the master-clothier is by him 

 delivered to the wool-sorters to be sorted. To prevent 

 frauds on the part of the wool-sorters, not only all the 

 wool-sorters work in the same room, under the imme- 

 diate inspection of the master wool-sorter, but a certain 

 quantity of each lot of wool being sorted in the pres- 

 ence of some one of the public officers belonging to the 

 house, it is seen by the experiment how much per cent 

 is lost by the separation of dirt and filth in sorting ; 

 and the quantity of sorted wool of the different qualities, 

 which the sorter is obliged to deliver for each hundred 



